Writing

As part of my journey as a software engineer and architect, I’ve also written several articles, written a book and recorded several videos teaching others how to use technology to (hopefully) become better developers. Here are links to a selected few recent items.

An article written in collaboration with Dice.com (my employer) and the Linux Foundation. This article talks about a few things we learned while moving the entirety of our Dice.com infrastructure to public cloud hosting.

A book written in 2015 introducing readers to Vagrant, with tips on starting with Vagrant, using provisioners and installing software on Vagrant machines. Along the way, I also discuss creating custom plugins and packaging boxes for others to use. This was a book published by Packt Publishing and is available in a number of different formats and from many different vendors.

Another video series from InfiniteSkills / O’Reilly Media on using Git source control software. This is another hands-on video series where I demonstrate some basic operations using Git; including basic cloning, editing, branching and merging.

Several publications under the heading of “Computational Literacy”; a four year study funded by the National Science Foundation that attempted to measure differences in student outcomes by engaging students in computational science: methods for applying numerical (quantitative) methods to learning topics that have traditionally been taught qualitatively.